Features & benefits with MERCONIS

…for shop operators

As a shop operator, you will enjoy a multitude of features and benefits if you use MERCONIS. The most important ones are listed in the following brief overview.

Fully automatic installation/integration in Contao

Immediately ready for use

Thanks to the MERCONIS installer, MERCONIS is immediately ready for use and pre-configured – even within an already existing website! Spare yourself the trouble of a lengthy manual installation and configuration of modules, pages etc. And what’s more, MERCONIS immediately provides you with a complete website including a mobile ready template, demo products etc.

Fully integrated in Contao

Due to the direct integration into Contao, MERCONIS is no "foreign body" but a harmonious component that integrates itself perfectly and smoothly into Contao thus leading to a standardized operation. You don’t need two systems because everything has been united under the same roof!

Ready-made themes

Including responsive themes – Shop “out of the box”

Select a MERCONIS themes during the automatic installation of MERCONIS. This provides you with a fully “responsive” (mobile ready) online shop „out of the box“ by the click of a button – pre-configured and prepared with demo data for you! Of course, the themes can always be modified or you can use your own themes or themes of a third-party provider.

Support and manual

Personal telephone support

You have questions or you need tips and tricks or a special solution or even the building of an online shop? Our MERCONIS techSupport is looking forward to hearing from you and to assisting you with help and advice!

MERCONIS forum

Here you can get in touch with our official support forum where our support team will help you with any questions, ideas and wishes whatsoever.

Online manual

MERCONIS has been developed for intuitive operation. But should you wish to look up something anyway, you have a detailed online manual to hand here.

Products & variants

Variant management

You would like to offer products in different variants and the prices of your variants depend on various parameters? No problem if you use MERCONIS! The "VariantCreator" which is included in the MERCONIS PRODUCT MANAGER (MPM) enables you to easily generate product variants by the click of a button. Or simply use our MERCONIS product configurators!

Configurators for products

All of your products can be equipped with almost any configurator which your customers can then use the product-related way. Configurators enable you to make products configurable. The selection and entries of your shop visitors will have a direct impact on the products, e.g. by changing their price or appearance.

Any further contents (Flex Contents)

You can easily enrich your products with any additional product information/field. With MERCONIS you are not confined to just text and one or two pictures in your product descriptions. No, quite the reverse! If you like, you can enrich your product description by a video or a PDF document and so on - just as you like!

Automatic gallery for product images/videos

MERCONIS will automatically display your product images and videos (certainly in an unlimited number) in a gallery which can be configured with various cross-fade effects and autoplay. By the way, MERCONIS can also directly assign images/videos to a product fully-automatically, if required.

Unlimited products and categories

The standard version of MERCONIS Enterprise offers the possibility of an unlimited number of products and categories. No matter if you would like to run a small online shop or an enterprise shop, MERCONIS is a reliable and powerful solution for shops of any size.

Product management with the MERCONIS PRODUCT MANAGER (MPM)!

Thanks to the innovative and very comfortable MERCONIS PRODUCT MANAGER, even large numbers of products can be edited the clear and easy way. You will enjoy this! Of course, product management can also be carried out the conventional way online or via import from your merchandise management.

Management of goods in stock & delivery times

Management of goods in stock

No matter if you already run a merchandise management system in your company or not, the management of goods in stock helps you to keep track of things. Perfect management of goods in stock is also a basic condition for reliable delivery times. MERCONIS informs you automatically when a minimum stock is reached.

Flexible delivery times

If required, MERCONIS can not only display that a product is “in stock” but automatically display information like, for example, "Delivery by Wednesday at the very latest" or show symbols like traffic lights (green/yellow/red), color bars etc. This makes it easy for you to comply with legal regulations concerning the indication of delivery times.

Convenience for your customers

Product filters

Even more convenience for your customers with regard to product search thanks to the powerful product filters of MERCONIS that can be set up very easily!

MERCONIS LiveHits

MERCONIS immediately provides you with a highly impressive and flexible product search "out of the box". While your shop customers still type in search words, they already get the results - live!

MERCONIS Quickview

MERCONIS Quickview enables your shop customers to also view product details automatically in a so-called "overlay" without having to leave a product search/product overview. This feature makes the handling of your shop particularly comfortable!

Watchlist

A MERCONIS shop automatically provides your visitors with a „Watchlist“.

My orders

Additionally, (registered/logged-on) shop visitors can at any time view all purchases made in the past along with the corresponding order status.

Payment and shipping options

Payment options

MERCONIS comes with various payment options by default. Using MERCONIS you don’t need any third party extensions that are often expensive. MERCONIS offers you everything you need without additional costs!

With Paypal Plus you offer your customers several payment options at a time, e.g. credit card payment, and your customers don’t have to register with Paypal.

The payment providers PayOne, VR Pay, SIX Payment Services/Saferpay offer you a variety of payment options which you can use with MERCONIS.

You require another special payment provider? Please contact our techSupport!

Shipping options

MERCONIS makes it very easy to offer a wide range of shipping options which will then be calculated and displayed automatically for your customers depending on various criteria. Common shipping options and providers are included by default.

Sales-boosting functions

Cross-selling/accessories

Do efficient cross-selling for your products and increase your sales the easy way with MERCONIS! Show your customers which similar or related products you offer or let them know which best-sellers or accessories there are in your shop.

Coupons/discounts

You would also like to offer coupons or grant discounts in the course of your marketing activities? MERCONIS offers you both comfortable and flexible coupon and discount possibilities!

Special reduced price, old/new price

Product prices can also be displayed as special reduced prices or as old price/new price.

New products

New products can be explicitely marked as new products.

Your pricing

Flexible differential pricing

You can easily enter any price scale you like for each product/variant and the correct price will be calculated automatically depending on the number of units ordered. With regard to quantity, you can also define certain criteria based on which the software decides whether a product/variant is to be clustered with other products or treated separately.

Various customer groups

You have various customer groups, e.g. private and business customers with different terms and conditions? No problem with MERCONIS!

International trade

Multilingualism

You want to sell your products everywhere in the world or in various languages? No problem with MERCONIS: MERCONIS makes multilingual online business possible!

Tax zones

International trade is your everyday business? Various tax rates and tax zones, e.g. domestic market, EU with and without VAT ident number (including a live online validation) or non-member country are no longer a mystery from now on and will be processed reliably by MERCONIS.

Communication with your customers

Flexible and comfortable news and message management system

MERCONIS makes customer communication a child's play thanks to the flexible, efficient and comfortable news and message handling!

Generating and sending PDFs (e.g. PDF invoices)

With the news and message management system integrated in MERCONIS you can not only send static files but also generate and send along any dynamic PDF file. You can, for example, send PDF invoices which MERCONIS has already prepared for you.